House Republicans stuck together and, with the support of three Democrats, pushed through sweeping reforms to the state's auto insurance system for the first time since the Michigan's no-fault law was created more than 40 …
Public school district officials wouldn't need to get a waiver from the Department of Education (MDE) if they wanted their schools to start before Labor Day, under legislation that moved out of a House committee …
Special elections with new maps will need to be held in 2020 in congressional, state Senate and House districts as part of the League of Women Voters' (LWV) gerrymandering lawsuit, a three-judge Court of Appeals …
The three-bill civil asset forfeiture package -- SB 0002, HB 4001, and HB 4002 -- was sent to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for her presumed signature Thursday.
When there's an emergency -- a heart attack, a fire, an active shooter -- dispatchers automatically get an address of where the 911 call is coming from. But in larger facilities, they won't know where …
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's plans to connect older students and new high school graduates to two-year higher education scholarships were unveiled Thursday morning amid bipartisan, business and union support at Lansing Community College.
Senate and House leaders are coordinating their efforts to reach agreement on no-fault auto insurance reform, up front -- at the beginning of the legislative process. The term they're using for this approach is that …
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hasn't suggested it. Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake) told reporters he doesn't envision it. But currently the elephant in the room is the potential pairing of Michigan's two biggest issues, crumbling …
Consumers would have to be notified within 45 days if their "sensitive personally identifying information" was stolen in a data breach, under two bills that moved out of the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday morning.
The small business community quickly called out Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's plan to tax small business more like large corporations as a way to raise money to pay for a return to the income tax exemption …
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's plan to "fix the damn roads" includes increasing the gas tax by 45 cents as part of a three-step process starting Oct. 1 and ending Oct. 1, 2020.
House Tax Policy Committee members narrowly rejected an amendment to protect the School Aid Fund (SAF) from losing money before voting 14-1 to move a repeal of the a so-called "pension tax" to the Ways …
More than a year-and-a-half and 121 approved facility licenses later, the state's Medical Marihuana Licensing Board (MMLB) has met its end by the hand of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's executive order reorganizing the state's marijuana regulatory …
Governor Whitmer came out today with her proposed budget which includes a small business tax and a 45-cent per gallon gas tax increase.
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The Legislature was within its right to amend two citizen-initiated laws during the same legislative session in which they were adopted, the chair of the Michigan Law Revision Commission told MIRS Wednesday.
A legal challenge to take down the Legislature's lame duck changes to the state's minimum wage and paid sick leave proposals is coming soon, MIRS has learned.
Secretary of State (SOS) Jocelyn Benson said Tuesday she'd be forming an office within the SOS to implement the independent redistricting commission, the voter-approved panel that will redraw the 2021 legislative and congressional boundaries.